Home stretch!

Well, you are almost there. You have been in our thoughts and prayers especially these last few days. Hope everything went well and your fam is anxious to see you. Come home soon! Love, aunt tam

Crucible - Brian will be starting this on THURSDAY

Hey Guys,

Brian is in the final phase of boot camp!  Some days that is hard to believe that he has been gone for almost 12 weeks already and other days it feels like we would never get to this point!  I just wanted everyone to know that Brian could use the extra prayers this week.  He will starting the Crucible on Thursday.  Knowing my Son the way I do I know in my heart this kid will kick butt!  But the Mother in me wants everyone else to have his back in thoughts and prayers!  LOL

Brian and I want to thank ALL OF YOU that have taken the time to write to Brian, pray for him, and to check on his Mother to make sure she was still hanging in there!  You have no idea what it means to us to have family and friends that care and love your child so much.

I have attached a link below that will give you and idea of what he is going to face for 54 hours. 

Information about the Crucible

Thanks again!
Love
Lynn

Update on Brian

Well we finally heard from Brian today.  He has been very busy getting ready for the Company Commander Inspection and they didn't have free time for almost a week.  Brian had told Lachelle in her last letter about his score at the rifle range which was the 215 out of 250.  He did not elaborate any more then that so he did explain what that meant in our letter today.  He qualified as a sharpshooter he was only 5 points away from expert so he was quite proud of himself.  I'm not sure who is prouder him or his father!  lol  They had to get ready for the Combat Fitness Test which consists of a 800 yard sprint, 30 lbs of ammo can lifts and an obstacle course.  He said it is very brutal and that we should look it up online.  This  is the course I have seen that they have to carry someone in this obstacle course.  He ran the 800 yards in 3mins 18 seconds, did 102 ammo lifts and the course in 2:29, overall he did better than anyone in his platoon!  He is counting down to the Crucible (only 2 weeks) and Family Day (3 weeks) he is hoping it goes by very fast.  But then he told me he has his flight booked for April 25th so of course that made the tears start rolling down my face already!  LOL  And this is Lachelle's birthday.  But I will deal with this when it gets here!

And we got the packet about his graduation so we are all looking forward to that!

Riffle Training

Brian had riffle training for two weeks.  One week is called grass week where they sit for hours and hold positions as if they were shooting and then the 2nd week is qualification week.   He said he did pretty good 215 out of 250.  So this is one more more qualification behind us for graduation!  I'm not sure who is happier Lachelle, me or Zeke that we are looking towards the home stretch of boot camp!  Poor Zeke has had one ear infection after another and we are starting on our third go around. I talked to the vet's office last night and now they are going to need to do a culture on his ears and send that away to figure out what type of infection he has in order to figure out what antibiotic he needs to clear this up for good.  So Zeke needs Brian back to baby him and get him through the next few weeks because we have Zeke stressed out this week.  Monday night Kerry Grubb and Brian started the work on the family room. We are putting a door at the top of the family room stairs to turn the family room into a living area for Brian, Lachelle and Baby Logue so they can try to get some money saved up for their own place.  But change scares Zeke so he won't go up or down the steps unless he is protected by one of us!  LOL So I'm pretty sure Zeke will be the happiest to see Brian.

Thinking about you, Brian

Hi Brian,
Was just thinking about you and wanted you to know that I am proud of you. I hope things are going well. Won't be long now so keep up the good work!! Love you, Aunt Ann

Song of the Month- Fireball Mail

Flatt & Scruggs at it again on their show sponsored by Martha White Flour, if you ever get a chance get the video off Netflix it is interesting to watch. The song of the month Is Fireball Mail. Enjoy.  Opps wrong blog.

Brian's letter dated March 6, 2011

We got a letter from Brian today letting us know that he doesn't think he likes being 20! He figures he will have to act more like a grown up since he isn't a teenager anymore (then he says haha I'm just kidding but turning 20 definitely feels weird to say I'm 20).  Wait until his little one is turning 20 like his Mother is dealing with! lol He survived the mid cycle personal fitness test which entailed pull ups, sit ups and a 3 mile run.  He said he needs to improve but was pretty proud of himself for running 3 miles in 24:45 minutes when he hates to run but he will be working on improving that. lol  And he couldn't remember if he had told me or not but he is up to 175lbs!  That was a big surprise he was at his highest weight ever before he left and that was only 154lbs!  His recruiter told us before he left that you will probably see a big difference one way or the other with his weight.  Either he will loose a lot of weight while he is in boot camp or he will bulk up.  Well I figured as thin as that kid was he would loose weight not gain it so I can't wait to see what he looks like!  This week he will be shooting all week and then Saturday he will be hiking 9 miles fully geared.  He is counting down the days to the crucible which as of 3/6/11 was 4 weeks and 4 days and only 5 weeks 4 days until Family day!  We are all doing the same count down here. Brian asked me to put this on the blog -

I appreciate all the letters and cards just gonna take me a while to respond to them.  I love you all and can't wait to see you!

Letter from Brian dated 3/3/11

Brian sounds good in his letters (thank goodness) but said he was just scratching off another day on his calendar until he gets to see everyone!  And he heard we were renting two vehicles to come down so now he is wondering who all is coming! lol  I printed out a copy of the blog and sent to him and he was thrilled and told me that he thought it was awesome and that I did a great job on it!  (he knows how many issues his mother has was new things on the computer haha).  He went on to tell us about the service rifles they are shooting and some interesting things he learned about guns that his father understood.  He said grass week is very hard they have to get into really uncomfortable positions and stay in them for hours and stare at targets and act like you are shooting.  He said it makes your body ache (more than it already does) and on Saturday they have IPFT which is initial physical fitness test and they have to do pull ups, sit ups and a 3 mile run (then he wrote - yeah Happy Birthday Recruit Logue. lol I dreading it because I hate running)
He also got a letter from Aunt Edith.

Letter from Brian dated 2/27/11

Brian said their hike to the rifle range was 6 1/2 miles fully geared (which weighs a ton).  This week at the rifle range is grass week where they learn how to shoot and log all of their information into their books.  They will shooting the rifles and have to qualify in order to graduate as well.  He said everyone has told them that this is the two worst weeks because the drill instructors loose their minds over every little thing we do wrong and we get messed up all day long!

He said he hates how long the mail takes but that he appreciates hearing from everyone.

Letter from Brian dated 2/24/11

Sorry guys, I was still sick last week and didn't get my blog updated!   Brian was happy to get a letter I sent him last week with pictures of Lachelle and her little baby bump and the second sonogram she had a few weeks back.  I sent him the 1st sonogram as well so he could see the difference in the two sonograms and he said that he was showing everyone pictures of his baby!  LOL  He also said that he had a very interesting week.  He passed a 100 question test which you are required to pass to graduate (yeah) and then he went to the gas chamber!  He said they take you into a room and light the gas and then make you do 30 jumping jacks and then they break the seal of their masks.  He said people were freaking out and one guy passed out but he handled it well!  He said he didn't even move and he took small breaths so that he wasn't as messed up as most people.  Then they went to the rappell tower and fast rope. He did a helicopter simulator jump. Saturday the 26th they would be packing up all of their stuff and hiking to the rifle range for two weeks.

I had to laugh when I read this letter!  I told his father only our child would handle the gas chamber well. lol

Craig (Pap)

Recievied letter 2/14 he sounds great & well on path to becoming a Marine!

Brian's Birthday is March 5th

Hey Guys,

Brian's birthday is next Saturday he will be 20!!!  If you get a chance could you send him a note?  I know he loves getting mail from all of you!  thank you.

Here is his address again if you need it.

RCT Logue, B.W.
3rd BN, Mike Co., PLT 3030
P.O. Box 16345
MCRD Parris Island, SC  29905


And Dad I'm sorry I didn't call you on your birthday yesterday I was sleeping most of the day!  So Happy Belated Birthday!  I love you!

Lynn